As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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